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recently built my very first pc and was looking for sites to get games from ( >:) ) and now i cant stop downloading games. i dont even play them all - i just keep collecting them because they might be interesting or because ive heard that they are good. i'm also super happy that my rig is good enough to play them all without too many compromises :D
based GOG user.
Well yes but actually no since I didn't pay for any of these
even more based
Have to say FTL must be the weirdest game I have ever played. I bought it right when it came out back in 2012 and I loved it. But for the life of me I couldn’t finish it. That fucking super cruiser boss pummelled me every single time. I had no chance. And I tried so many times.
At some point I just gave up and forgot about it. Until last year when YouTube auto play threw a beginners guide for FTL into my playlist and I found out one can pause the game by pressing space. You can freeze the game, think, give your commands and unfreeze it. I did not know that because nobody gives a shit about tutorials.
So I immediately downloaded FTL, started a run and beat it “first try”. Then I started again with that Drone Ship, and I won. Then I started another run, this time with that stone thingy ship and I won again! I couldn’t beat it once back then, then I beat it three times in a row knowing the function of the space bar.
What I’m trying to say is: Don’t be like me, play the stupid tutorial.
PS: I wonder if I also did something wrong with Enter the Gungeon…
I cannot even imagine trying to beat the rebel cruiser without being able to pause and line up my shots. My heart goes out to you.
Enter the Gungeon is about practising till you train your brain to dodge. Its not unusual to play 70 hours before getting your first run completed. I can give a bunch of beginner tips if you want. I would recommend sticking with it, its the GOAT twin stick shooter and when you crack it once, you'll start getting back to back run completion.
I appreciate any help I can get!
Get comfortable using your starting gun. You need to be able to get through the first 2+ levels (including bosses) with just your starting gun.
Start with Hunter or Marine. Convict and Pilot starting guns are way more inaccurate and short range (see point 1).
Your eyes should be fixated on your character most of the time. Your priority is avoiding damage and saving the little health you have. Your peripheral vision can be used for aiming your gun. Doesn't matter if you waste some ammo, health is far more valuable; especially for boss fights (see point 9).
Dodge roll is very high risk and should be used very carefully. You're very vulnerable after a roll. The vast majority of the time you'll avoid damage by simply stepping out of the way. Walking backwards away from a projectile gives you tons more time to react and "slows down" enemy projectiles.
If you do need to dodge roll, then try to roll to behind a pillar or some cover.
Always dodge roll towards a projectile, or maybe perpendicular to it. It's tempting to dodge roll away from an enemy, but you'll be going in line with the projectile and will usually get hit by it anyway.
Play very cautiously. Doesnt matter if it feels like you're cheesing it. You can almost treat this game like Gears of War....i.e. Hide behind cover, peek out and shoot, then duck behind cover again and reload.
Use your environment. Flip tables for cover. Blow up barrels to clear the room. Push back enemies into pits.
You HAVE to get at least 2 or 3 hitless boss kills for the bullet reward, or else you won't have enough health to finish the run. Practice getting hitless wins on all bosses for the first couple of levels. You can watch YouTube videos for their attack patterns if you're finding it too frustrating to figure it out with experience and deaths.
A lot of guns are ass and worse than your starting gun. Keep at least a couple of good guns at full ammo for the boss fight.
Save blanks for the boss fight. If you take 1 hit in a random room then it's not a huge deal. If you take a hit in the boss room, you lose your hitless reward.
Use blanks early. If you can see you're in too tight a situation with a boss, then blank it. You have to avoid hits. Better to waste a blank cautiously rather than lose a hit to a boss.
Make sure your controller has decent analog sticks...... Do NOT play with fucking Joycons.
You'll mostly need to save your money to buy keys from the shop. Other items can be bought with leftover money.
Learn about stealing from the shop and how to do it safely.
Learn about finding secret breakable walls.
Explosive weapons are very valuable. Explosions destroy enemy projectiles.
Your routine needs to be: walk into a room, stop instantly, scan the room with your eyes in half a second, then prioritise enemies (biggest threat, closest, etc). Then go back to keeping your eyes fixed on your character.
If you don't mind spoilers, then there's a YouTuber called Abe Clancy who has an excellent backlog of gameplay videos to watch.
Shoot chests once before approaching in case it is a mimic. Unopenable chests should be destroyed.
This is NOT a 3D game. You can't walk "behind" an enemy. If you come in contact with the 2D sprite of an upstanding or levitating boss, you'll still take contact damage.
I would change some game settings: fast walk outside combat, small GUI, turn on aiming reticule, etc.
I'll add more of I can think of them. This game is merciless. You need to be able to die a dumb death, shrug and restart. It's a good life lesson in "it is what it is" to be honest.
I played this game for months, and one day I jumped off the couch and shouted about winning a run. My wife literally said "are you shitting me? This game you've been playing for months? You've been playing for months without winning? WTF".
me with movies and tv shows i'll never watch but having them is super nostalgic so i download them anyway
Love and Sex eh? Is Frostpunk as chill and cozy as it seems?
I was waiting for someone to notice :D I kept seeing all these sex games whilst scrolling and wanted to see what it's all about. Seemed to be the best-rated one. Haven't played it yet :D
Ehh Frostpunk might have been one of the most stressful games I've ever played. Like, holy. I've played through it on PS5 and enjoyed my time a lot because I'm usually pretty shit at strategy games, so a base-building game with strategy elements was a good compromise, I feel like. But the amount of min-maxing, weighing citizens' needs against what you can offer resource-wise led to a really stressful game loop. Have only played the Last Autumn DLC but couldn't win a run, then I lost interest. I feel like both 1&2 will likely be more playable on PC
its mid (not in a bad way tho), fem character didn't have enough content last time I played
Yea I thought as much. I don't expect sex games to be good or something but I thought it's at least catering to all swathes of genders, identities and sexual preferences
Hmm ok I will not be buying that game then, I thought it was more cozy haha
I don't think cozy is the right word, but there is something very beautiful and calming about the game, at least once you get the mechanics of it.
Frostpunk is hardcore, intense, and stressful. Bleak, hostile, and oppressive are other words I would link to it.
BUT! It's absolutely amazingly well done. I was playing on the edge of my seat. I have never been that intensely invested in any strategy game or city builder... It's certainly in my personal top 10.
I bought over 15 games yesterday, so I feel seen
was it a packaged deal, or did you buy them individually?
packaged deal = understandable (just call it 1 purchase to keep the significant other from being too concerned about you)
individual games = your significant other has legitimate concers....
I bought them individually, there was a huge GOG sale
You can't drop this and not share which games you got
Tiny Witch, The Red Strings Club, Technobabylon, Sticky Business, Spirited Thief, Shardlight, Scorchlands, Resonance, Mainframe Defenders, Jack Move, Illuminaria, Heroes of Spyria, FixFox, Dropsy, Chambers of Devious Design, Aven Colony, Automachef, 2064: Read Only Memories
A nice site is the official fitgirl repack site.
I started downloading games again too, as most of the releases are complete shit. Bug simulators with poor stories. Empty money-grab scams with loads of expensive DLC's.
But if there's a game you enjoy playing, I'd recommend purchasing it to support the devs. Like Larian Studios who made Baldur's Gate 3. That game is worth the money.
And if you purchase a game, do it through GoG. Because there you purchase the game which becomes your property, instead of purchasing the rights to play a game which isn't yours like with all the other platforms.
Enjoy collecting!
Basically every indie game on steam is also just yours to own.
Steam "drm" is entirely optional and can even just be turned off locally in any game more or less. Either just by throwing a simple txt file with the app id in the root folder or just removing the dll that hooks steams overlay into the game.
Strictly speaking the only reason steam games need steam to run at all is because the dll is hooking into steam cloud/overlay and community services. Hench why games "fail" to launch if steam isn't on. The dll is unable to load the overlay so it crashes, your missing dependencies.
If you don't need or want them they are optional tho with the simple removal of the dll or appid txt file.
Seriously you can just remove the steam API dll from silksong and it runs entirely locally. Same with RimWorld, factario, terraria, cave of qud, etc.
Steam IS a drm free platform by default. The mandatory requirement is opt in for devs.
I only point this out cause for some fucking reason this once common knowledge has been lost to time. And for some reason everyone thinks steam doesn't allow you to play your games with out it.
Itchi and gog are great stores but they don't have everything. And people shouldn't feel limited because of nonsense like lack of knowledge of their options.
And itch.io if they have it! Aside from the lack of DRM, developers have a say in what cut goes to the platform (and bigger games usually ship valid steam keys alongside them)
Currently steering clear off torrents because I don't want to pay for a VPN/can't afford one. Got all of the games via direct downloads. And yea absolutely, if I had the money, I would buy them. Getting them like this helps me try out if they're up my alley in the first place
"There's nothing to play"
Also I see Die In The Dungeon on your desktop! Wild game that is! I played classic mostly, but now it took more of "Slay The Spire" turn.
Frrr💀
I hadn't heard of the game until randomly stumbling upon it while searching for games, but it looks really neat. Looked like a mix between Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons - looking forward to giving that a try
Yeah it has super cute musics and arts, I've tried Slay the Spire but didn't bother with ascension, i just unlocked that one Mantra character, and that was about it for me.
Slay the Spire might be one of the best games ever created. Huge fan, beat Ascension 20 on all characters except Defect I think? It takes some time to get into it, but it's really rewarding once you get a hang of things. But also fine to not force yourself to engage with a game more than you're willing to put into
But also fine to not force yourself to engage with a game more than you’re willing to put into
<3 <3 <3
BG3, FTL, Inscryption, Dredge; you have fantastic taste! The first weekend I got Inscryption, I logged over 20 hours in less than 2 days.
If you havent already, I highly reccomend the Multiverse mod for FTL, it's effectively fan-made FTL2. Also, Void War is a good game I think you'de joy, it's FTL but not!40k themed.
Torchlight 2 was such a fun game.
I've only heard that it's supposedly the better of 1&2 and that it's a fun alternative to Diablo. I've played Diablo and PoE before, but I've never played any of the Torchlights.
Torchlight is ultra casual compared to PoE. Really nice for just plain fun if you want to enjoy a game in this genre rather than getting into sweaty try - hard gameplay.
One of these is not like the others
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uninstalled by now - couldn't get it to work
Lol there is an odd-one-out.
Not a pirating site but there is a cool counter-strike forum called cs.rin.ru where they talk about other games as well.
Also you sign up without email if I remember correctly and once you login the places where they talk about games get extra content and links.
Jokes aside be careful about piracy adition and remember the rule about indie games.
Recommend adding Clair Obscur to yer desktop of addiction. Would describe it as an artsy, soulful, turn-based darksoulsy jrpg written by Tarantino.
I played all but two 😔
Which two games did you not play? And wow, that's quite a few. To completion or just played?
Haven't tried The Plucky Squire and Rollerdrome, the latter looks fun might try it :P
In general I'm kind of awful at finishing games but you got a lot of good stuff, I've finished: BG3, Frostpunks, Rayman (I think, was a long time ago) Metro, Neverwinter, Elysium, Cult of the Lamb, Dragon Age, Papers Please, Torchlight, Dredge, Inscryption, Slay the Princess, Second Base, Boltgun
Played a ton of spore, peglin and ftl, would consider them "finished" at this point
I've not played either either - Plucky Squire looks really cute :)
I've got one finished run in Frostpunk 1, Rayman 2 is a childhood game I had to get again now that I'm older and not constantly scared by every single enemy :D, Neverwinter Nights I've not really played but I played it with my brother over LAN and he was into it quite a bit - didn't know what I was doing half the time. Disco Elysium might just be one of my favourite games ever after playing it. And so on and so forth :D
Tldr couple of games I've already either played a little or a lot of before but most of them are pretty much new to me - looking forward to playing them :)
Enjoy your games! Getting more games than are played seems to be a PC standard just look at steam libraries vs games played (My excuse is humble bundles). GLHF
PC makes it easy to give in to hoarding tendencies, I feel like, because getting the games is a lot easier and storage is cheaper. I will have to start playing stuff though because I'm spending more time looking for games to download than actually playing :D
lol, yeah, somedays I sit down to play a game, I spend all my time scrolling through itch.io or so to find some cool games instead of playing anything. I started with 1tb and I thought id never possibly fill that....then I upgraded to 4tb, then added another (mostly for backups though)....
I definitely wont fill 4tb of storage...Hopefully.
Hope you find games you love and get lost in!